brown. >>> the oakland police department has agreed to hand over authority of the command staff to a court-appointed director. that move came in response to the threat of a federal takeover of the department. oakland has failed to meet a federal judge's order to make rerms agreed to in the settlement of a police brutality case nearly ten years ago. >> we've been orking hard to demonstrate to the courts and the public that we can police ourselves and this department can constitute -- practice constitutional policing. >> a court must approve the handoff of the department to a federal director. >>> well, somewhat of a change with our weather presentation for today. no rain to talk about. still some lingering clouds out there with partly to mostly cloudy skies conditions. we are heading into a dry weather set up for the weekend. still overcast out there. some upper level clouds and some lower clouds but not much in the way of dense fog. as far as the rainfall, it's way up to the north, up to the pacific northwest, portland and seattle, picking up significant rainfall. most of california